How should I build a good (web) API

Question

I\'m going to build an API for a web app and I\'m interested in what people can suggest as good practices.

I\'m already planning to make it versioned (version 1 can only

Answer 1

Use REST.

RESTful web services architecture is easy to implement and uses the strengths and semantics of HTTP for what they were intended. It's resource-oriented, just like the web itself.

Amazon Web Services, Google and many others offer REST APIs to interact with their products.